Maxwell · 1996 Spin it Again - Maxwell recorded most of this in London with Sade's guitarist, and you can hear the candlelight in every track.

Erykah Badu · 1997 Spin it Again - She walked into 90s R&B with a live band and a headwrap and proved the groove was enough.

D'Angelo · 1995 Spin it Again - Recorded to two-inch tape with Roy Hargrove on flugelhorn, this is the album that proved R&B could breathe on a hi-fi system.

Sneaker Pimps · 1996 Spin it Again - This is the trip-hop album that remembers pop music needs a hook.

Tricky · 1995 Spin it Again - Tricky named the album after his mother, who died when he was four, and every beat sounds like grief that never found a door.

Massive Attack · 1991 Spin it Again - Three guys from Bristol, a reggae legend, and a string section that shouldn’t work.

DJ Krush · 1995 Spin it Again - DJ Krush's soundtrack for the 1995 anime is less a film score and more a beat meditation on what it means to be a machine that knows it's dreaming.

UNKLE · 1998 Spin it Again - Mixed mostly on broken headphones at 3 AM, this trip-hop landmark sounds exactly like that — desperate, intimate, and designed to be heard alone.

DJ Shadow · 1996 Spin it Again - Every sound on Endtroducing..... came from someone else's record. It still sounds like no one before or since.

Slowdive · 1993 Spin it Again - A bucket of reverb and heartbreak so deep you can still hear Alison's sigh through the hiss.

Cocteau Twins · 1990 Spin it Again - Elizabeth Fraser’s voice is the instrument, not the lyrics, and this album is its highest cathedral.

Radiohead · 1995 Spin it Again - The Bends is the sound of a band learning to fly by throwing themselves off a cliff — and discovering they had wings.

Jeff Buckley · 1994 Spin it Again - He had his father's genes and none of his luck. Grace is what he made of the time he had.

R.E.M. · 1992 Spin it Again - The album that made quiet stadium-filling — and then refused to turn it back up.

Mstislav Rostropovich · 1991 Spin it Again - Six suites, one cello, and a lifetime of understanding.

Jan Garbarek / The Hilliard Ensemble · 1994 Spin it Again - Gregorian chant meets free jazz saxophone inside a stone monastery. It should not work. It still does.

Franz Schubert · 2004 Spin it Again - They had already recorded this piece a decade earlier. This time they came back slower, heavier, and more terrifying.

Pete Rock & CL Smooth · 1994 Spin it Again - This is what happens when a producer knows exactly when to stop touching the fader.

The Pharcyde · 1992 Spin it Again - The SP-1200 was dying, the producer was leaving, and they kept the tapes rolling anyway — this is what happens when four friends trust the accident.

De La Soul · 1991 Spin it Again - They killed their mascot, then made an album so dense and dark it took a decade to fully appreciate.